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sea wasped adj. Having drunk more than the nervous system can safely classify, and still capable of stinging remarks. Dvon woke sea wasped, delivering one precise criticism about the kettle before retreating upstairs. sea watered adj. Drunk, with the result that every movement becomes salt-heavy, wavering, and difficult to steer. sea whip coralled adj. You are drunk and arranging the household into a flexible colony with very few practical branches. sea whipped adj. You have drunk enough to rise in flexible branches, then collapse gracefully across the first available chair. sea whistled adj. Of a drinker who has found a small bladder of breath and is using it throughout the morning. sea willowed adj. Describing a drinker who bends in long flexible branches whenever the morning requires standing. Kallis was sea willowed, folding round the doorframe on the way to the bathroom. sea wolfed adj. Slowed by drink to a strong-jawed trudge towards the last train home. sea woodloused adj. A drinker who has retreated to the damp edge of proceedings and prefers not to be turned over. Ferna was sea woodloused beneath the coat rack, emerging only when someone mentioned water. sea wormed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning is navigated by wriggling through one narrow task at a time. sea wormwooded adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a bitter coastal disposition before the first cup of tea. sea-batted adj. Loosened by drink into a soft, flapping presence which drifts wherever the tide of conversation takes it. sea-blubbered adj. The drunkenness of one who has become soft, buoyant and inconveniently present in every chair. sea-blue histiocytosised adj. Reduced by drink to a blue, overfilled stillness, with the morning stored visibly beneath the skin. sea-boated adj. Drunk on the strength of a vessel that exists chiefly in the imagination and pitches considerably. sea-booted adj. Drunk since last orders, and equipped to cross any wet deck except the one beneath you. sea-bottled adj. Softened by drink into a green bladder, sealed against conversation and floating wherever the room allows.